George Santayana wisely said: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Oblivious to history and its lessons, the United States and its Western allies are repeating their actions fromthe 1950s by imposing an oil embargo on Iran. The U.S.-led alliance has forgotten the past. Iran remembers. When, under the leadership […]

Responding to the onset of the European Union’s oil embargo with a defiant show of military strength and renewed threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has signaled to the West that it won’t be a passive victim of economic warfare. Iranian officials this week made defiant remarks over a United States build […]

In the latest war of words between Iran and the United States, Tehran has drawn a line in the sand (actually, the Persian Gulf). According to Maj. Gen. Ataollah Salehi, the commander in chief of the Iranian army, “We recommend to the American warship that passed through the Strait of Hormuz and went to […]

A week ago Ron Paul tried to convey how the ever-tightening sanctions on Iran–which may soon include an embargo on its oil–look from an Iranian point of view: It’s as if China were to blockade the Gulf of Mexico, he said–“an act of war”. This is sheer conjecture; Ron Paul is no expert on […]

The closure of an international body of water is an act of war. If Iran implemented such a policy in the Strait of Hormuz, it would thus constitute an act of war. This is because in order to do so, this country would have to physically violate the rights of peaceful shippers. One might […]

All winter long the drums of war have been beating. At first it was reports, taken seriously by even hardened observers of the Middle East scene, that Israel was planning to use the Christmas holiday period to launch an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Then Iran in its turn ratcheted up the tensions as […]

With the next round of talks between Iran and the “P5+1” (also known as the “Iran Six”, the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council – the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia – plus Germany) nations scheduled in Iraq on May 23, Washington has skillfully combined the carrot of softening its […]